Today's In the news will be brief. Not just in tribute to the endeavours of Heather Mills, who this morning faces the approbation of the nation's media simply for the temerity of having a dream (albeit a dream mainly built around impenetrable personal security), but also because there's not much else to write about.

Take, for example, the Star's Macca follow-up (only four pages on from their unprecedented front-page apology to the McCanns), which claims that the Beatle might at some point have a meal with Kylie.

"Sir Paul McCartney has agreed to have dinner with Kylie Minogue now his divorce has gone through," the paper reports this morning. To be fair, it offers no direct substantiation for this claim, though it does talk to "a source" who says of a previous meeting, which may or may not have been over dinner: "The kinship between them was so instant they discussed working together."

The source goes on: "We're dealing with two people who've had their fingers burned. So they are not going to rush into anything romantic - but what they have is a rare connection that will ensure they stay in each other's lives."

It's difficult to work out why this story exists at all, other than to indulge the source in a little waxing lyrical. In the news can only assume that, somehow, the image of a reunion between Kylie and Sir Paul is supposed to act as a mental palate-cleanser after a week of distasteful events. Though, honestly, it doesn't quite do it for us.

Second in today's unprecedented line-up of pop developments is the news that Madonna has become aware of mobile telephony. Or, rather, her record label have, with Warners planning to release seven tracks from Madge's upcoming Hard Candy album to Vodafone users a week before anyone else is allowed to flog them.

Logically, this would seem to be a publicity stunt. You can't imagine many of Madonna's fans, perhaps now beyond the first flush of youth, queueing up to download the new material. At least not without losing it in the process. On reflection, though, it seems that following the model of Guy Hands at EMI, Warner are looking for all possible routes to monetize their product. Which might be why her new single 4 Minutes to Save the World, was only released this week and is already appearing on a Sunsilk ad.

Thirdly, Will Young has noticed that Mark Ronson is currently a popular producer. "Who wouldn't want to work with him? He's the man of the moment", Young is quoted as saying in the Sun. "Everyone wants to know what equipment and microphones he uses." Of course they do, and that attention to sonic detail is why Will Young is a pop star and you are not.